CHICAGO, Ill. — Suzie Hernandez woke up yesterday with a feeling that President Obama was going to be re-elected and convinced three of her colleagues to make the four-hour-long drive from their hometown in Ohio to Chicago to celebrate at the end of Election Day. “Four years ago today, I stayed home and watched Obama »

CHICAGO, Ill. — Four years after an historic election victory, President Barack Obama clinched a second term on Tuesday, edging out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and securing another four years of holding the nation’s highest public office. At press time, Obama had won a total of 303 electoral votes com- pared to Romney’s 206. »

CHICAGO, Ill. — Signs supporting President Barack Obama lined the storefronts on 53rd Street in Hyde Park, a place that residents have affectionately nicknamed “Obamatown” and “Obamanation.” Despite his rapid rise in politics as Illinois senator and then president, President Obama has still kept in touch with people in his hometown, local residents said. All »

Eight candidates in New Haven currently stand unopposed for eight seats in the Connecticut State Assembly and Senate, and all of them are Democrats. New Haven is a largely Democratic city, with its Board of Alderman entirely Democratic and 45,000 of its residents registered Democrats, compared to 2,400 registered Republicans, according to a spokesman for »